Looking Through Lace
This is a very enjoyable 70-page story involving a female xenolinguist (a specialist in non-human languages) trying to figure out a secret language used by women.
得獎科幻小說 ：太精彩！而且才七十頁！地球來的語言學家分析外星人的秘密語言（有一點點像湖南省的女書）
http://www.amazon.com/Looking-Through-Lace-Ruth-Nestvold-ebook/dp/B004P5NSKA/
江永女書是一種專門給女性使用的文字
Blurb:
As the only woman on the first contact team, xenolinguist Toni Donato expected her assignment on Christmas would be to analyze the secret women's language -- but then the chief linguist begins to sabotage her work. What is behind it? Why do the men and women have separate languages in the first place? What Toni learns turns everything she thought they knew on its head.
Originally published in Asimov's in 2003, "Looking Through Lace" was a finalist for the Tiptree and Sturgeon awards. The Italian translation won the Premio Italia for best work of speculative fiction in translation in 2007.
About the author:
Ruth Nestvold’s short stories have appeared in numerous markets, including Asimov’s, F&SF, Baen’s Universe, Strange Horizons, Realms of Fantasy, and Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best Science Fiction. Her fiction has been nominated for the Nebula, Tiptree, and Sturgeon Awards. In 2007, the Italian translation of her novella “Looking Through Lace” won the “Premio Italia” award for best international work. Her novel Flamme und Harfe appeared in translation with the German imprint of Random House, Penhaligon, in 2009 and has since been translated into Dutch and Italian. She maintains a web site at www.ruthnestvold.com
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